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Thanks Girls and Goodbye: Volunteers

Various media from 1942 – posters, newsreels and promotional films – show the recruiting campaign for the Women’s Land Army. In interview, Tige Hunter explains why she joined up.

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A Nation is Built: Reaping the harvests of history

Scenes of wheat harvesting are accompanied by commentary full of metaphors of nation-building based on ‘harvesting the benefits of a great past’.

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A Nation is Built: The wool industry

A close-up of a ‘modern stud’ sheep is shown to be the product of a ‘century’s breeding’.

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A Nation is Built: Sydney

A beautifully photographed montage of Sydney’s architecture, streets, people and modes of transport that is rapidly edited to orchestrated music. Summary by Poppy de Souza.

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Power to Win

In this dramatised sequence, a mining family hears on the wireless that Singapore has fallen to the Japanese.

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Soldiers Without Uniform: The frontline of the factory

A man is ready to leave for his night shift at the munitions factory when his young daughter, Topsy, runs up to him.

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Soldiers Without Uniform: 'A great partnership'

A family sits around the breakfast table after son Ted has finished his night shift at the munitions factory.

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While There is Still Time: 'Lending instead of spending'

After complaining to her mother (Bobbie Hunt) about not being able to borrow money to go out for a night with the girls, Grace (Dorothy Dickson) sulks in her room.

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While There is Still Time: 'Sacrifice, while there is still time'

Grace (Dorothy Dickson) has received a letter from her soldier boyfriend Jim, who has been blinded while fighting overseas.

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A Mountain Goes to Sea

Shipbuilders work at the Whyalla shipyards for Australia’s war effort. A woman shakes out a broom over a veranda with the ship visible to the left. Men walk through the streets to or from work.